Reposted by skyTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 10hTragic news: Curtis Flowers, who faced an extraordinarily ordeal by being prosecuted six times for the same crime by a Mississippi DA over decades before SCOTUS sided with him in 2019, just died at 56. Flowers' case was core to the 'In the Dark' podcast.mississippitoday.orgWrongly imprisoned Curtis Flowers diesAfter Flowers was convicted in a sixth trial, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned it and a state judge dismissed capital murder charges against him. 10403157
Reposted by skyDerrick Rowe @derrickrowe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I really really hate how pre Second World War antisemitism is making a big comeback. 052
Reposted by skyLiliturra @liliturra.bsky.social · 07/10/2026This is the best overview I've read about the plague. Also, it brings up the thing to actually be scared of if you're in the US: measles. We're up to 1000 cases in Pennsylvania. If you've never been vaccinated, do it. If you have, check if you should get a booster. Protect yourself and others. 02821
Reposted by skyThe Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 07/10/2026www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...theguardian.comA medieval manuscript has confounded scholars for centuries. Have they been reading it wrong all this time?Researchers argue incorrect binding of Voynich manuscript radically changes ideas about its drawings and indecipherable text 511125
Reposted by skyBethany Morgan 🔆🌹🐌 @bethanygabagool.bsky.social · 05/10/2026i also see a lot of reductive takes that are like "by zionism i suppose you mean saying a positive thing about israel or disagreeing with kicking all jews out of SWANA" like no we actually mean raising funds for IOF, lobbying the govt on behalf of israel, sales of illegally occupied land 1366
Reposted by skyjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026a competitive texas is like a vicksburg level defeat for the GOP 402054135
Reposted by skyJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026It would be better for everyone if resolutions saying “Zionism is racism” also said, for example, “Hindutva is racism” and “Sinhala Buddhist nationalism is racism.” It might make Jews feel less singled out, but it would also force pro-Israel people to defend their ideology on its own terms. 48415
Reposted by skyJacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026In 1974, Cornell lecturer Lin Farley began recognizing a pattern in the experiences women shared in her Women and Work course: women were being pushed out of jobs by men’s sexual behavior. Farley coined the term, “sexual harassment.” 31372486
Reposted by skythe mountain goats lyrics @tmgbot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The things that you've got coming will do things that you're afraid to There is someone waiting out there with a mouthful of surprises 072
Reposted by skyThis Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 04/10/202690 years ago, on the 4th of October 1936, antifascist counter protesters stopped a British Union of Fascists march through London’s East End. The Metropolitan Police tried to clear the way for the fascists resulting in violent clashes known as the Battle of Cable Street. #otd #history 🗃️ 523583
Reposted by skyJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The oft-cited claim that October 7, 2023 was the deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust ignores the fact more Jews died in the Argentine military junta's Dirty War, due in part to the link between Jews and leftism. But accepting that would lead to a very different narrative of Jewish history. 623242
Reposted by skyHyde T. Voltyge @hydevoltyge.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Same polling averages Pure independent voters on Trump on the economy: 2024 election: Trump+22 vs. Harris Now: Trump net approval -77 A 99-point shift. 052
Reposted by skyjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/10/2026this for RFK Jr. is mission accomplished 8045511081
Reposted by skyJonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The "health freedom” movement is run by health authoritarians. They want to impose their anti-vaccine agenda on you, to threaten and intimidate scientists, and to let parents treat their children as disposable objects. This needs to be opposed, not appeased. My latest.sciencebasedmedicine.org“Health Freedom” Leaders are Health Authoritarians"The centerpiece of the MAHA and health freedom agenda has been removal of mRNA shots." 716857
Reposted by skySeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The term “remigration” is associated with the extreme right and only came into widespread usage in 2023-4. Even Germany’s AfD avoided using the term in 2024 for fear of scaring away voters. Today the US government is celebrating the “victories” it’s racked up in the “ethnic cleansing” column. 771582645
Reposted by skyMikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 01/10/2026People got "special briefings"from the ADL about Oct 7 that was just more snuff footage and lo and behold they are insane genocidal psychos now. 722018
Reposted by skyBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time." 2349861156
Reposted by skyMikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 30/09/2026And yeah, sometimes Jewish communal establishment organizations say "oh well if you really cared you'd stop criticizing Israel," they are wrong and you can tell them to fuck off. Doesn't lift the responsibility to actually protect Jews. People deserve safety even if their leaders are racist morons. 323023
Reposted by skyRural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Herky the Hawk Red Oak, IA 844870
Reposted by skyAudrey Gagnon @audreygagnon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Do you research online extremism at a university in Australia, NZ, UK, US, Canada or Ireland? Consider taking this survey which compare ethics review boards' and researcher perception and understanding of the risk of online extremism research. For more info: soton.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...soton.eu.qualtrics.comQualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience ManagementThe most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today. 1411
Reposted by skyHunter Dunn @hunterisntdunn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is antisemitism. This isn’t leftism. This isn’t anti-Zionism. This isn’t progressive activism. This is just blatant antisemitism. 542304293
Reposted by skyMartha, but like, super spooky @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Last summer, I got in a fight with a man for disruptive and increasingly homophobic heckling at a baseball game. He tried to physically intidate me. After, another man told me everyone agreed with me. Well why the fuck didn't you say something, you weak piece of shit? bsky.app/profile/fang... 134043
Reposted by skyT.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Never sell anyone out. In fact, if you're asked about banning 12-year-olds from softball, just say, "You're asking me to sell out kids for my political career. I'm not going to do that. Let's stop demonizing people in tougher circumstances than you or I will ever experience. They have guts." 151597325
Reposted by skythe mountain goats lyrics @tmgbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Yeah sing for the damage we've done And the worse things that we'll do 051
Reposted by skyRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Verlander being taken out of his final game: aww, it's his daughter! he's crying! we're crying! how can you not be romantic about baseball! Scherzer being taken out of his (maybe) final game: and Scherzer is baring his teeth ... and there's the bite! it'll take a few minutes to clean up the blood 328124
Reposted by skymore mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026this is pinned up in rust cohle's storage locker with a couple faces crossed out 230125
Reposted by skythe mountain goats lyrics @tmgbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Some things you do for money and some you do for love love love 032
Reposted by skyKathryn Brightbill ✒️ @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Today is the 2nd anniversary of Hurricane Helene's landfall. Helene was a tragedy because too many people south of where it made landfall didn't heed surge warnings, and too many officials in Tennessee and North Carolina ignored days of catastrophic flood warnings. www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2024...nhc.noaa.govCentral Pacific Hurricane Center 2525 Correa Rd Suite 250 Honolulu, HI 96822 W-HFO.webmaster@noaa.gov 2124
Reposted by skyAsher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I don't mean what I'm about to say in a sappy way, but a fairly hard-nosed one: natural ecosystems are often remarkably good at recovering from serious local natural disasters *if they are given the chance.* 21425407
Reposted by skyIMEU Policy Project @imeupolicy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026NEW POLLING: An overwhelming supermajority of Americans across partisan lines support a resolution being brought forward by Senator Chris Van Hollen to investigate the Israeli government’s killing of American citizens and the rampant human rights abuses in the illegally-occupied West Bank. 3547138
Reposted by skyNathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026ICE has abducted Senegalese WBB player Aminata Seck and won't release her. DHS 'policy' is to provide medical care to prisoners at intake, yet they admit to denying her care for an ACL injury for 1.5 months. The NCAA is letting it happen, despite its predatory recruitment of ICAs. We explain.theguardian.comICE has abducted a college athlete. What are the NCAA and universities going to do about it?Aminata Seck’s detention shows the bargain facing international college athletes: universities eagerly recruit them, but support can disappear when their immigration status becomes precarious. 10888513
Reposted by skyNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The two main tendencies in national Israeli politics right now are "expulsion and annexation of the Palestinian territories" vs "civil separation under the authority of an Israeli police state", and virtually all mainstream US commentary simply refuses to engage with this. 5722161
Reposted by skyAnna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Journalism gets the goods: Tim Tebow "pauses" his partnership with this wealth seminar company after @kieraevebutler.bsky.social's investigation. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.comTim Tebow “pausing” Christian seminar promotion after our investigation“I think the allegations are extremely serious." 66948245
Reposted by skyJonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026“At least six babies in Pennsylvania have been born infected with measles, with two so sick they had to be admitted to intensive care.” H/t @ameshaa.bsky.socialnbcnews.comAmerica had wiped out measles. Now babies are infected at birth.Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected. 23535632002
Reposted by skyMikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 26/09/2026People don't even understand*their own personal material conditions* as raw data, they understand it as a story. 338335
Reposted by skySeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Joel Tenney is an Iowa pastor who gave the invocation for a Trump rally there in 2023. He's been to Mar-a-Lago and campaigned this summer with IA GOP gubernatorial Zach Lahn. He's got pics of himself with Trump and Vance. Oh, and also, he's an antisemitic white nationalist Holocaust denying Nazi. 16540209
Reposted by skyHoward Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Not to state the obvious, but Bibi picking fights abroad is, in addition to everything else, an electoral campaign strategy 615321
sky @skywalker75.bsky.social · 24/09/2026as an election judge, I have urged my friends and family NOT to change address/register to vote at DPS. I have seen too many people thinking they registered there who show up on ED and aren't actually registered. 100
Reposted by skyCurious Witness @curiouswitness.bsky.social · 24/09/2026When you have to pray that ICE doesn't kill any residents of your district because you know it could cost you an election in a place that leans heavily toward your party, that's what the poli-sci folks call a bad electoral environment. 0299
Reposted by skyHyde T. Voltyge @hydevoltyge.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I keep worrying I'm aiming at strawmen, then I see people saying crap like Dem up 4 is dead even, less is a loss, above 5 is a win Just idiotic misunderstanding of the way polling error works. Of course, you have to not remember 2018, 2022, or 2025 at minimum for this, bad memory theory wins again 181
